Visual SourceSafe System Capacities and Specifications

ID: Q138298

4.00 5.00 | 4.00 5.00

WINDOWS   | WINDOWS NT

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SUMMARY

This article contains information concerning the system capacities of Visual SourceSafe.

NOTE: All capacities are related to versions 4.0 and 5.0 of Visual SourceSafe unless otherwise noted.

Users running Visual SourceSafe concurrently: Unlimited.
Files and projects in a SourceSafe Database: approx. 4 billion.
Files and projects directly in a single project: 8191 (however, for performance reasons, Microsoft recommends that there be no more than a few hundred files in a single project).
Nested project Depth: 15 (this is a recommended limit. You may add more than 15 projects, but Microsoft only supports nested projects 15 levels deep).
Bytes in a file:
Visual SourceSafe 4.0: 64 megabytes. Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 2 gigabytes
Lines in the Windows View Command: 64,000.
Versions in a file or project history: 32,767 (the count on a project history does not include file Updates in that project).
Bytes in the Windows history display: 32,767.
Lines in a project history: 8191.
Files correlated in a project history: 8191.

Project Path (for example, $/Word/Spelling): 259 Characters.
Filename: 255 characters (all platforms except MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows). A short (8.3) name is also stored for compatibility with the FAT file system. Names are not case sensitive.
Username: 31 characters.
Password:
Visual SourseSafe 4.0: 15 characters. Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 31 characters.
File or project Label: 31 characters.
String to "Scan" for: 63 characters.
Line in the SS.INI file: 511 characters.
Length of a checkout comment: 63 characters.
Length of a check in or label comment: 4095 characters.

KBCategory: kbusage KBSubcategory: SourceSafe Additional reference words: vbwin 4.00 5.00 Windows 95 vss limitation capacity

Keywords          : SourceSafe 
Version           : 4.00 5.00 | 4.00 5.00
Platform          : NT WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: January 30, 1997